Contents -BIBLIOGRAPHIC RECORD

Carl Sandburg (1878–1967). Smoke and Steel. 1922.

IV. Playthings of the Wind

20. Three Ghosts

THREE tailors of Tooley Street wrote: We, the People.

The names are forgotten. It is a joke in ghosts.

Cutters or bushelmen or armhole basters, they sat

cross-legged stitching, snatched at scissors, stole each

other thimbles.

Cross-legged, working for wages, joking each other

as misfits cut from the cloth of a Master Tailor,

they sat and spoke their thoughts of the glory of

The People, they met after work and drank beer to

The People.

Faded off into the twilights the names are forgotten.

It is a joke in ghosts. Let it ride. They wrote: We,

The People.